Comments on: Is the Chandrayaan project too ambitious?

By: ANUPAM AMBUJ

ANUPAM AMBUJ — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:49:09 +0000

Chandrayan Mission Is undoubtedly very helpful for India for it would increase the importance,prestige,……for India.

By: ayushi

ayushi — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:25:40 +0000

people think that chandrayan is a waste of money but they never see the positive side of it. ok then let us think for a while that we dont use these money on chandrayan than is there any assuarity that the politicians are not going to steal these money, they are in a search of a good time when they can put all those money in ther pockets. now utilising those money on chandrayan is better than providing it to the greedy politicians. today in the list of top 10 countries which sent the spacecrafts in space there is also the name of india so we should be proud at our success

By: DanUK

DanUK — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:14:24 +0000

I guess we have our answer.

Indian outsourcing doesn’t work for businesses, and it doesn’t work when they develop internally either.

You have to ask yourself, if they have 3x the population of Europe, 4x the population of the US, where are the Microsofts, the Suns, the Oracles? There’s a reason they live off of western contracts — they’re worker bees, not leaders, not innovators.

Sorry, someone had to say it.

By: Creator

Creator — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:59:32 +0000

I believe that their space programme is in the right direction. If you compare the money they spent in making bollywood movies and space programme, you will realize that the money spent in space programme is still nothing!!

Their major problems are still cumbersome democracy and corrupted political system.

PS: The technology they use in their space mission is not fully indegenously developed. still it is not a drwaback as nearly all space aspirants rely one way or other depend another countries for fullfilling such pace missions.

By: china wong

china wong — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:54:24 +0000

Too bad to hear about the death of Chandrayaan today. But it answered the question already. IMO it is just too ambitious with only $79 million spending. As I Chinese
I just wish ISRO have more spending and less bragging for the second time.

By: s. moharana

s. moharana — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:56:18 +0000

we will compete the world in any cost.The present pain may lead us to a brighter future.

By: Anuj

Anuj — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:44:53 +0000

Poverty alleciation is a given. It is our complusion and our reality. The motivation regards Moon missions and space exploration for the Indian media and the Indian people might be to compete with the west or china or whatever, but among policy makers, scientists and their financiers, it is to do with development. Socialism in India resulted in the License Raj, slow economic growth and staganation of entrepreneurial and pregressive thinking. It was the reason why we lagged behind and failed to move people out of poverty amng other reasons.

Since 1991, when we opened our economy and followed a slightly more rightist, open market path, we have halved the population of Indian living under poverty from about 49% of population down to 25%. thats a big achievement in a country of a billion people!

Space exploration makes our growth more rounded and ensures we don’t lad behind and pay heavy amounts to ensure our defense, communication, weather forecasting and intellectual growth to other wountries who innovate faster than us. People who haven’t encountered the challenges of economic depravity in a non aggressive non militant country, will never be able to understand the depth and complexity of our challenge. We do not solve our problems by invading other countries for resources. We hold the moral high ground despite our poverty and they know it.

By: Samir Ranjan

Samir Ranjan — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:28:07 +0000

I have seen some comments here from readers in the West ridiculing India for spending millions on space program while there is such poverty in the country. The expenditure of colossal sums certainly seems criminal when there are children dying of malnutrition. By that token, the U.S. should shut down NASA and similar other missions given that there are so many homeless who freeze to death every year in New York and other cold regions, and there are beggers and malnourished children in Manhattan, Missouri, Alabama and elesewhere. Also, when India spends huge amounts buying fighter jets from the western countries, why don’t they put forward the same argument? On the contrary, the U.S. finalizes with such alacrity the nuclear deal under which India will spend millions to buy nuclear reactors from the U.S. The U.s. and other Western countries are also making a bee-line to grab the multi-million deal to sell fighter planes to India. But, and it comes full circle here, these developed countries come back with the same
argument when India undertakes such projects as development of LCA or Chandrayaan. Clearly, anything that threatens their technological superiority or business is not acceptable.

By: Rohan de Silva

Rohan de Silva — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:52:32 +0000

Indians are a joke. We all know that. This space probe does not showcase any “Indian” technology. What technology did Indian invent?

All of this was spoon-fed to them like little children in a Montessori in the 50s and 60s by the West.

Indians don’t’ have basic sanitation, and these people are trying to go to the moon.

Jokers!!!

By: Mathew

Mathew — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:02:29 +0000

It is absurd to comment that Chandrayan I was a failure.In the eightees, ISRO was launching Russian Rockets for metereological survey, then India developed own rockets, RSR100, 200, 300, 500, etc, for the same purpose. From there, thro the nintees, we managed to launch Polar Satellites thro PSLV and then Communication Satellites with GSLV. What a great development within 20 years! Now, with initiation of Chandrayan Project, we are heading towards the Moon. This is a systematic development and Chandrayan I is only some 10% of the total project in which 90% was successful. India has to develop a vehicle which can return back from Space like Space Shuttle. Re-entry techonlogy is a challenge for any Manned mission. Then again, we have to develop a capsule which can go into the moon with man, return back to its mother unit orbitting around the moon. It needs time, money, dedication and determination. Mr. Sreedharans comment was at the wrong time! If millions are under poverty, why does he support High Speed Railways, Super Highway Projets and such hight tech infrastructure developments!!! We can distribute it to the poor!!!